'A kind of' definitions:
Definition of 'A kind of'
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- Kind \Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, a.]
- 1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7. [1913 Webster]
- She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. [1913 Webster]
- How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I Cor. xv. 39. [1913 Webster]
- Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.
- In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. [1913 Webster]
- Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. --Arbuthnot.
- Syn: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set. [1913 Webster]